South China Morning Post - Companies

While Chinese investors chased Unitree Robotics amid the frenzy for robotics stocks, the market this week also focused on the implications of July’s US inflation rate, the gold price trend and the interim results of CK Hutchison Holdings, one of the flagship companies owned by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing’s family. Unitree’s retail subscription rate of 0.0181% Millions of r...

Online fast-fashion platform Shein believes it deserves a premium valuation comparable to that of industry peers like H&M, citing its business model and global customer base as major competitive advantages, according to internal documents seen by the South China Morning Post. Shein cited analysts who said the market should view the company as a global fashion giant similar t...

Chinese banks are rushing to test a new way of pricing corporate loans against short-term market funding costs, a move that analysts say could make borrowing rates more responsive to monetary conditions but also test lenders’ risk management capabilities. The shift to the overnight or seven-day depository-institutions repo rate (DR) from the monthly-released loan prime rate (LPR...

SF Reit, Hong Kong’s first real estate investment trust to focus on logistics properties, saw its distributable income fall by 7.3 per cent year on year to HK$110.7 million (US$14.11 million) in the first half of the year. The firm – which is controlled by the Chinese logistics giant SF Holding – recorded total revenue of HK$219.3 million for the first six months of 2026, down 4...

Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com saw its second-quarter net profit soar 15 per cent year on year to 7.1 billion yuan (US$1.1 billion), beating market expectations despite a slight dip in overall revenue, as it contends with sluggish domestic consumer demand, fierce competition and a push into new business lines. Net revenue for the three months ended June 30 fell 2.9 per cent to ...